Nice one, ISPY. Right, I think we should perhaps get back on topic now. So what was it? Oh yes Bear,... or was it Nemi? Actually Nemi looks as if she has only recently extracted herself from a compromising situation similar to those that Robbie is referring to above. Either that or she's on the pavement after a night on the pop in Bolton town centre. Keep your distance, lads.

Just pointing out that The Sun actually first launched in 1964 as a broadsheet published by IPC. Rupert Murdoch bought it and relaunched it as a tabloid on 17 November 1969. It's this issue you're referring to, the first tabloid Sun, not the first edition overall.

Incidentally, Wikipedia says that a strip called Scarth was in that issue, the name apparently being a reference to Garth. Lambiek has some information about that strip and it's artist, Luis Roca. http://lambiek.net/artists/r/roca_luis.htm

I have both first issues - the broadsheet and the tabloid - but I can't remember if the tabloid relaunch started the numbering back from no. 1.

Since we're talking about a newspaper, they probably dropped the numbering completely. Most newspapers don't use numbering any more, and I don't think that's a recent trend, especially for the tabloids.

Bear and More Bear are clearly reprints of her Sun work [I've got a copy of Bear here so will post some strips when I've got more time]. Bear is dated 1974.

BUT before either of these books came out there was book entilted "The Posy Simmonds bear book" which wasn't strip cartoon reprints from the Sun although it did feature Bear so presumably acted as some sort of calling card for the folks at the Sun.

I think you'll find all newspapers are numbered, no longer on the front though but at the bottom of the back page in the small box where they provide the publisher's details. Only exception to my knowledge is the FT.

City AM, a London financial freesheet, publishes its 1000th issue on Friday. I wonder if they'll have a bumber celebration issue.

I actually have some Sun Newspapers from the late 1700s but it was no relation to the present incarnation.

That's right, Steve. The Daily Herald, a socialist paper that my father started to buy instead of the communist organ The Daily Worker, gave up the ghost in 1964. The Sun emerged the following day. I've still got a copy of that first issue somewhere.

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